Managing Engineering by the Numbers: Productivity and risk management for the engineer and organization

All businesses communicate with words and budgetary figures, but engineering businesses must also precisely store and communicate the measured or designed values associated with their products. Modern information technology has offered no viable solutions for the enterprise-wide traceability, reliability, and contextual storage of this critical intellectual property.

This paper explores problems that result from the lack of explicit support for engineering numbers as complete statements of measurement. A breakthrough technology, called truenumbers®, provides precise contextual storage, communication and traceability of critical engineering values.